The Holocaust in Perspective...

Hillary presented a speech to a large Jewish group in NY mentioning the Holocaust and problems with Iran.

The speech caused me to wonder a bit about genocide and war - especially the most terrible war in human history, WWII and how it compares with the Jewish genocide.

I am peeved at Jewish politics here in the U.S. and most certainly with the arrogance of Israel toward her only real friend in the world. But, unlike the bombastic President of Iran, I have no doubt that the ‘holocaust' happened and was a terrible thing during a terrible time in a terrible world and I certainly don't hate Jews!

So, not to put down the ‘holocaust' but rather to put it in perspective, I found a well done website containing graphs and statistics on wars the U.S. has participated in since the Revolution. http://rationalrevolution.net/articles/casualties_of_war.htm
OR: http://tinyurl.com/yow8xf

It does not address the ‘holocaust' directly but I'm sure the six million Jews irrationally murdered by Hitler's madness are included in the civilian statistics.

The bottom line is that World War II cost over twenty-three million military lives and thirty-one million civilian lives which comes to fifty-five million human beings for a war which should not have happened and achieved very littl. That number is approximately the entire population of England or France or Italy - take your choice.

Most noteworthy among civilian deaths during WWII, we find that 10 million Chinese civilians were killed in WWII by the Japanese. There were 7.7 million Russian civilians killed by the Germans during that war and 6 million Polish persons, about one in five, were annihilated - probably many of the latter were Jews.

To put those horrible numbers in greater perspective - if possible, ‘only' 62,000 civilians were killed in Great Britain despite the nightly rain of German "V" type rockets on cities during the blitz. And even Japan lost ‘only' 300,000 civilians as a result of our incendiary bombing of Tokyo and the atomic destruction of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki!

As my favorite Civil War general, Sherman once said, "War is Hell!" So, I do wish that the Jews would put to rest their gnashing and flailing over something which happened almost seventy years ago over a war which is virtually forgotten by the rest of the world. They certainly weren't alone in misery. ...AG]